Collaborating Organizations

About Stacey Milbern

Stacey Milbern is president of
the National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN)and a Youth Organizer for the Disabled Young People’s
Collective.Stacey prides herself as a
disability rights activist interested in building a community that recognizes
the intersections of oppression.

We captured Stacey Milbern’s
voice in December of 2006 when she was 19 years old. This portrait of young
leadership was recorded in the home of the late Ron Mace, the visionary North
Carolina architect who championed Universal Design beginning in the ‘60’s.

Stacey still lives in North
Carolina where she is studying Political Science. In 2009, Milbern worked
with others to host the first Youth Leadership Forum in her state last summer.
She is proud to say it was 100% youth-run. Stacey is passionate about
independent media, radical youth organizing, and social justice. In addition to
serving as NYLN president, she is a blogger, a poet, and a community organizer.
Stacey is disabled and proud.

Milburn also runs a personal blog that receives
over 200 visitors a day. She believes in the power of creating space, promoting
pride with visibility, and the future of the movement.